The cyclodimerisation of 3-methyl-2-butenenitrile

3-Methyl-2-butenenitrile (1) cyclodimerised on treatment with lithium diisopropylamide in dimethoxyethane at temperatures between ?78°C and 0°C to 3-amino-4-cyano-1,5,5-trimethyl-1,3-cyclohexadiene (2) the structure of which was established by acid hydrolysis to the known 4-cyano-1,5,5-trimethyl-1-cyclohexene-3-one (3).     

Conical parametric scattering of a single extraordinary beam in BaTiO3 crystal

In this paper, the parametric scattering of a single extraordinary polarized beam of laser in BaTiO₃ photorefractive crystal has been investigated experimentally and theoretically. The resulting pattern consists of beam fanning, isotropic ring, and anisotropic one. Among all parts of scattering pattern, isotropic ring has not been studied as much as beam fanning and anisotropic ring, and there still are some differences in reports about it. Therefore, the study has mainly focused on this part. In this experimental configuration, isotropic ring is just visible in positive angles although the other parts of parametric scattering pattern can be visible from behind and in front of the crystal. In addition to steady state pattern in forward and backward directions, its transient behavior with the rotation of crystal has been studied. The results of experiments have been analyzed carefully, and their theoretical explanations have been presented based on the standard theory of parametric scattering in photorefractive crystals. It has been shown that this configuration corresponds to the so called parametric B-process scattering.     

Self-chemical ionization of diethylzinc

The self-chemical ionization of diethylzinc is examined by Fourier transform ion cyclotron resonance (FT-ICR) mass spectrometry and semiempirical molecular orbital calculations. Electron impact of diethylzinc neutral produces the radical cation, C(4)H(15)Zn(+) (m/z x 122), which reacts further with the neutral (C(2)H(5))(2)Zn to give the following product ions: Zn(+) (m/z x 64), C(2)H(5)Zn(+) (m/z x 93), C(4)H(9)Zn(+) (m/z x 121), C(4)H(11)Zn(2)(+) (m/z x 187), and C(6)H(15)Zn(2)(+) (m/z x 215). To determine the structure and pathways for production of these ions, monoisotopic (12)C(4)H(15)(64)Zn(+), (64)Zn(+) and (12)C(2)H(5)(64)Zn(+) were individually isolated and reacted with the neutral background. We also performed semiempirical molecular orbital calculations (ZINDO/1). The molecular orbital calculations and experimental data are consistent in predicting that the ethyl group on the diethylzinc cation carries the positive charge. Copyright 1999 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

怀孕期头发中一些元素含量的变化趋势

用同步辐射激发X射线荧光分析,对11个产妇怀孕期间头发内一些元素含量的变化趋势进行了测量,在各自对比的基础上,得到了一些结果。     

Dynamic reduction of a CH4/air chemical mechanism appropriate for investigating vortex–flame interactions

This paper describes two methods, piecewise reusable implementation of solution mapping (PRISM) and dynamic steady‐state approximation (DYSSA), in which chemistry is reduced dynamically to reduce the computational burden in combustion simulations. Each method utilizes the large range in species timescales to reduce the dimensionality to the number of species with slow timescales. The methods are applied within a framework that uses hypercubes to partition multidimensional chemical composition space, where each chemical species concentration, plus temperature, is represented by an axis in space. The dimensionality of the problem is reduced uniquely in each hypercube, but the dimensionality of chemical composition space is not reduced. The dimensionality reduction is dynamic and is different for different hypercubes, thereby escaping the restrictions of global methods in which reductions must be valid for all chemical mixtures. PRISM constructs polynomial equations in each hypercube, replacing the chemical kinetic ordinary differential equation (ODE) system with a set of quadratic polynomials with terms related to the number of species with slow timescales. Earlier versions of PRISM were applied to smaller chemical mechanisms and used all chemical species concentrations as terms. DYSSA is a dynamic treatment of the steady‐state approximation and uses the fast–slow timescale separation to determine the set of steady‐state species in each hypercube. A reduced number of chemical kinetic ODEs are integrated rather than the original full set. PRISM and DYSSA are evaluated for simulations of a pair of counterrotating vortices interacting with a premixed CH₄/air laminar flame. DYSSA is sufficiently accurate for use in combustion simulations, and when relative errors are less than 1.0%, speedups on the order of 3 are observed. PRISM does not perform as well as DYSSA with respect to accuracy and efficiency. Although the polynomial evaluation that replaces the ODE solver is sufficiently fast, polynomials are not reused sufficiently to enable their construction cost to be recovered. © 2007 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. 39: 204–220, 2007     

Computational economy improvements in PRISM

The Piecewise Reusable Implementation of Solution Mapping (PRISM) procedure is applied to reactive flow simulations of (9‐species) H₂ + air combustion. PRISM takes the solution of the chemical kinetic ordinary differential equation system and parameterizes it with quadratic polynomials. To increase the accuracy, the parameterization is done piecewise, by dividing the multidimensional chemical composition space into hypercubes and constructing polynomials for each hypercube on demand. The polynomial coefficients are stored for subsequent repeated reuse. Initial cost of polynomial construction is expensive, but it recouped as the hypercube is reused, hence computational gain depends on the degree of hypercube reuse. We present two methods that help us to identify hypercubes that will ultimately have high reuse, this being accomplished before the expense of constructing polynomials has been incurred. One method utilizes the rate of movement of the chemical trajectory to estimate the number of steps the trajectory would make through the hypercube. The other method defers polynomial construction until a preset threshold of reuse has been met; an empirical method which, nevertheless, produces a substantial gain. The methods are tested on a 0‐D chemical mixture and reactive flow 1‐D and 2‐D simulations of selected laminar and turbulent H₂ + air flames. The computational performance of PRISM is improved by a factor of about 2 for both methods. © 2003 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. *

1 This article is a US Government work and, as such, is in the public domain of the United States of America.

Int J Chem Kinet 35: 438–452, 2003